The Seville City Council has awarded the 2015 Young Prize for Scientific Culture for her completed research work, in the experimental category, to Ana Isabel Borrás Martos

The prize is worth 5000 euros for the promotion and dissemination of research excellence. Its aim is to bring science closer to young people and support the work of young researchers. The requirements to apply for the prize were to be between 18 and 35 years old, to carry out their research work in Seville and the Province, and not to have been awarded in previous editions.

Ana graduated in Physics from the University of Seville in 2003, received an Extraordinary Doctorate Award from the University of Seville in 2007, and since 2011 she has been a Senior Scientist for the CSIC at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville, belonging to the Isla de la Cartuja Scientific Research Centre (cicCartuja).

Her main line of research is within the framework of Nanotechnology, which can be summarised as ‘functional nanostructured surfaces’. Her research work is developed in two areas: on the one hand fundamental (synthesis of new materials and study of their growth mechanisms) and on the other applied (optical, transport and wetting properties). Her research establishes the bases for the implementation of these materials in devices for the use of sunlight, in multisensors for polluting gases and in phototransistors.

Several prototypes resulting from her activity are currently in operation at the Institute of Materials Science of Seville (ICMS) and at the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA). Furthermore, among her technological transfer work she has 10 technical reports to companies and a patent as first author.